I started trying to write songs when I was 8 or 9 years old.

History shows us that the songs - the myth, the experience and the emotion - live longer the less you explain.

People need to put my music in a perspective where they use other established artists from the past, and almost all the names I see related to my music are great musicians.

I feel, in a way, on a record, you can be more subtle. In the live setting, everything gets amplified. The dynamics are more extreme in concert.

You know, I play in small, intimate venues; I'm not an arena performer.

Sometimes, you can't seem to find any song on the radio that you like.

I'm sort of old-fashioned in the sense that I like to write something that I feel I could just perform alone, obviously, because I do that a lot in concert. So I try to make a song where there is as much that is as distinct as I can get it, just if I'm playing it or if I'm singing it. That makes me really do a lot of stuff in the guitar work when I sit and try to figure out how to indicate what sort of dynamic I'm aiming for. Where, rhythmically, I want to go. That's sort of what ties a lot of different records together, is that it's usually always based around me singing and playing a guitar.